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Google Trend growth of Secretaries over the last 8 years have definitely seen a visible decline in interest as search surrounding the term Secretary has went down. In 2011 it seems that the interest has found some stability to stay at it’s current level in 2013.

Bureau of Labor Statistics information for Administrative Assistants and Secretaries Median salary in 2010 were listed as $34,660 a year which comes out to around $16.66 an hour. The total number of jobs available in the job market for secretaries was about 4,010,200 in 2010. Secretary jobs are expected to increase by around 12% from 2010 – 2020 adding nearly 492,900 jobs to the overall market. For detailed state by state secretary salary information you can scroll down below to look at each states job level of pay.

Listed below is information that is specific to Secretary job salaries that you can expect to receive in that state area. Our state by state breakdown allows you to see which state is best to get a job as a Secretary. The salary information provided below is off of real-world job listings for Secretaries and the pay offered for those jobs. We source Indeed, Simply Hired, PayScale and GlassDoor.com. The information provided by Indeed about their process for collecting salary averages is as follows: “Indeed Salary Search is based on an index of salary information extracted from over 50 million job postings from thousands of unique sources over the last 12 months. Many job descriptions don’t contain salary information, but there are enough that do to produce statistically significant median salaries for millions of keyword, job title and location combinations – in fact, most job searches you are likely to think of. As new jobs are added each day, the Indeed Salary Search index is automatically updated with fresh salary data, so the salary results are as up-to-date as they could possibly be.”